CHARLOTTE — For the first time in 100 years, UNC basketball and N.C. State won’t play two games during the regular season.

One of the ACC’s oldest rivalries, the Tar Heels and Wolfpack are scheduled to play Feb. 17 at Lenovo Center, but N.C. State won’t play in Chapel Hill for the first time since 1919.

“Crazy. Crazy. I hate it. I hate it that we can only get one game,” senior guard Seth Trimble said, shaking his head inside the Hilton Uptown Charlotte on Tuesday, Oct. 7, during ACC Tipoff, the conference’s annual basketball media days ahead of the 2025-26 season.

“I think those are some of the most fun games of the year at theirs and at ours. But I guess the game will mean even more now. Simple as that. We can’t dwell on not being able to play two games. We just gotta go get this

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